Apparently, I write tough trivia.
May. 27th, 2010 01:31 amSo I help out at the local bar, writing one themed round of trivia for the weekly trivia contest. I offer three possible rounds a week, and just roll forward the two that aren't used.
This week, we ended up doing the Shakespeare category. This got me gripes, because apparently I write the questions too hard. You guys tell me. I present the round.
You tell me, was it too difficult?
This week, we ended up doing the Shakespeare category. This got me gripes, because apparently I write the questions too hard. You guys tell me. I present the round.
- Shakespeare’s plays were often written in iambic pentameter. How many syllables are there in a standard line of iambic pentameter?
- In which of Shakespeare’s plays can one find the title character lamenting, “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!”
- What 1999 film starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles is a loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew?
- In the backstage world of theatre, one of the Bard’s plays is cursed. Which play is often referred to as “The Scottish Play” to avoid saying its name aloud?
- The line “All the world’s a stage” from As You Like It might be a reference to what London theatre, home to Lord Chamberlain’s Men?
- Upon his death, pianist Andre Tchaikowsky donated his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the use in productions of what play?
- The name of what character from The Merchant of Venice has become a verb, meaning to lend money at exorbitant rates?
- The Bard wrote many plays about kings. Who is the only Shakespearean title character that is a queen?
- Rupert Everett and Michelle Pfeiffer played the king and queen of fairies in the 1999 film version of what Shakespeare play?
- Romeo and Juliet is one of the Bard’s most famous plays. Name the households to which the two young lovers belong.
You tell me, was it too difficult?